Release Notes
What's new in Tiune, release by release.
Newest first.
0.2.1 — the updater repair
A small release, and almost all of it is one bug.
"Check for updates" now tells you the truth. The button appeared to do nothing. It was in fact checking, finding the update, and downloading it — it just had no way to say so. It waited 2.5 seconds for an answer that only arrives once the whole ~90 MB update has downloaded (about fourteen seconds on a fast connection), so the timeout always won and the verdict was always "Up to date ✓" — including when an update was downloading as you read it. It then wrote that verdict onto a button inside a menu the click had already closed, so nobody saw even the wrong answer.
The check now answers as soon as the release feed does, and distinguishes three things that used to look identical: you're up to date, there's a new version downloading, or the check itself failed.
Updates survive quitting. A downloaded update used to be held in memory while it waited for your go-ahead, so quitting threw the transfer away and the next launch began again at zero. Updates are now written to disk as they arrive, and an interrupted transfer resumes where it stopped instead of starting over.
A real dialog. One card that stays with you through the whole update: the version, the release notes, a live progress bar, and Restart & install when it's verified. Dismissing it never cancels anything — the status line at the bottom of the sidebar keeps tracking the download and becomes the restart button when it's ready. Updates found in the background still never interrupt you.
Security note. Because an update can now sit on disk between sessions, its signature is re-checked immediately before installing rather than trusted from when it arrived. Updates that fail that check are deleted. Superseded downloads are cleaned up instead of accumulating.
0.2.0 — the Windows release
The first release for Windows, the first with paid plans, and the first that can hear you switch languages mid-sentence.
Speak more than one language, in one breath
On Pro, a single sentence can hold more than one language. Start in Urdu, land in English, drop a French phrase in the middle — the whole thing comes out right, in one pass, with no setting to change and nothing to switch between.
This is a Pro capability for a structural reason rather than a commercial one: on-device engines commit to one language per window of audio and cannot revise that choice partway through a sentence. Cloud transcription detects inside the utterance instead, so a sentence is allowed to change its mind.
Write it as decides what the finished text looks like — the language you spoke, the same words in Latin letters, or English. On Pro it defaults to Latin letters, so a mixed sentence lands in one script rather than two. Change it any time in Settings; speech already in Latin letters is untouched either way.
Windows
Tiune runs on Windows: the same bar, the same dictation into any application, from an installer that fetches the Microsoft Visual C++ runtime if your machine doesn't already have it.
Push-to-talk is right Alt there rather than ⌥Space, because Alt+Space has been the window-menu chord on Windows since 1990.
Plans
Dictation stays free, unlimited, and on-device. Plus ($3/mo) adds the AI cleanup pass and transformations. Pro ($11/mo) adds cloud transcription in 90+ languages, and the multilingual single pass above. Both are two months cheaper paid annually. There's an Enterprise plan too.
If you pasted your own API keys into an earlier build, that's gone — the paid features are furnished by us now, and your old keys are removed from your Keychain or Credential Manager the first time 0.2.0 starts.
Tiune writes what you meant
Cleanup used to remove filler and punctuate. It now writes the sentence you were arriving at: say "meet at six, no, maybe five, let's say five" and the text reads "let's meet at five". The shorter text always has to be reachable from your own words by deleting, so nothing is put in your mouth. Set how hard it cuts in Settings — Intent, Tidy, or Off — and take any rewrite back with the undo binding, live for five seconds after Tiune types.
Cleanup that knows where the words are going
An email and a Slack reply want different sentences out of the same speech, so Tiune reads the destination and writes accordingly. It classifies by the shape of the fields around your cursor as well as by the app, so a composer is recognised as one whatever it's called. Only a one-word category ever leaves your machine — never the window title, never the app.
Faster
End-to-end latency is down from five to six and a half seconds to about one second: cloud transcription streams while you speak, cleanup starts during your natural pauses, and the engine is warmed at launch instead of inside your first dictation.
Also new
- Transformations — polish, professional, shorter, translate, or your own instruction, each on a keyboard chord that's live only while the capture is still up.
- Fragments you can speak into — and end with your ordinary dictation key.
- One-button push-to-talk — bind a single held modifier instead of a chord.
- A new bundled engine. Tiune Instant is now Parakeet 110m: roughly half the error rate of the engine it replaces, faster, and about the same size.
- Import a vocabulary list you already keep, as plain text or CSV.
- Insights that say where the time went — which destination takes most of your speaking time, and what kind of work your days read as. Worked out on your own machine, from what's already saved there.
- Keep no history — turn transcript saving off entirely in Settings → Privacy, or erase what's saved.
- Settings, rebuilt into five panes.
Fixes
Over fifty, most of them reported from real use: text landing with stray spaces or a wrongly lowercased first word, a dictation that pressed Enter and sent itself in a chat window, cleanup dropping or mangling real words, dictated questions ending in a full stop, the multilingual engine quietly translating instead of transcribing, a Windows launch crash, sign-in that couldn't finish its round trip, and microphones that report 16-bit audio failing to open at all.
Upgrading
The in-app updater handles it. Builds from before 23 July 2026 can't auto-update — the signing key was rotated — and need a fresh download from tiune.app.
0.1.0 — the first release
The complete dictation experience on Mac:
- Voice dictation anywhere — hold a shortcut, speak, and your words land wherever your cursor is, in any app.
- Two speech-recognition engines — Tiune Instant, built in and ready instantly, and Tiune Turbo, a downloadable option for the best possible English accuracy.
- Vocabulary learning — Tiune quietly gets better at your names and terms as you correct it, with no extra effort required.
- Fragments — a running list for half-formed thoughts, and a safety net for any dictation that couldn't be typed automatically.
- Insights — gentle, private observations about how you speak, generated entirely on your own machine.
- Sign in with Google or Apple — a one-time step so your vocabulary and corrections follow you everywhere.
- Fully offline dictation — once you're signed in, no internet connection is required for everyday use.